We talk a lot about improving your kitchen — we love a dramatic before & after of a kitchen renovation, and we also love finding small and inexpensive tips to make your kitchen more beautiful and functional. Here's a look back at some of our kitchen improvement posts from this past year, including how to tutorials on painting your floors and improving your countertops, along with makeover requests, small and practical solutions for rental kitchens, and inspiring before & afters!

Practical Solutions & Resources
• Build a Spice Rack With a Ruler!
• Small Rental Kitchen Upgrade: Swap Out the Switch Plates
• Oil Cloth Liner In the Silverware Drawer
• Small Kitchen Solution: Cover the Stove Top for More Counter Space?
• How To Make an Over-the-Door Pot Rack
• Ugly Kitchen Floor? Change It with a Floor Cloth
• Kitchen Design Tip: Lamp on the Counter
• French Nature Posters for the Kitchen
• Use a Chip Clip to Hold Recipes
• Cookware Stands for Storing Pots and Pans
• Space Saver: Folding Kitchen Island
• Create Counter Space: Over-the-Sink Cutting Boards

Before & After and Other Inspiration!
• Rental Kitchen Makeover: Cambria's Colorful $80 Budget
• Kitchen Makeover: White Walls and Pine Cupboards
• Before and After: White Rental Kitchen, Transformed
• Steve's San Francisco Color Inspiration
• Kitchen Makeover: From Beige To Beautiful!
• Before & After: Two Changes that Make a Huge Difference
• The $30 Kitchen Makeover
• A Fresh Kitchen Makeover for Only $400
• Ashley Ann's $500 Light and Lovely Remodel
• Kitchen Gallery: Pot Rack Inspiration
• Color in the Kitchen...On the Cheap
• Rental Kitchen Color: Consider Brown
• 10 Recently Inspiring Rental Kitchens
• Your Kitchen Improvements! A Kitchen Cure Roundup
• Organization Inspiration: New Pantry Closet

Kitchen Improvement Project How-To
• How To Replace a Kitchen Faucet: Our Experience
• How To Make a "Built-In" Cabinet Out Of IKEA Varde Units
• My Chalkboard Fridge: Turn Your Fridge Into a Food Diary
• How To Upgrade a Kitchen with Chalkboard Paint
• How To Paint Ugly Laminate Kitchen Countertops
• Ugly Countertops: A Few Solutions
• Create a Collage of Kitchen Tools: Two Examples
• How To Paint a Kitchen
• How To Prettify (and Kittify) an Ugly Dishwasher Panel
• Look! (and a Brief How-To): Cork Cabinet Siding
• How To Build a Spice Rack: Susy's White and Minimal
• How To Paint (and Stencil) a Kitchen Floor
• How To Create a Colorful Kitchen Floor
• How To Refinish Flaky Cabinets From the 60s
• How To Paint Plastic Laminate Kitchen Cabinets

Questions and Advice
• Can a Julia Child-Style Peg Board Work In My Kitchen?
• Can this Awkward Kitchen Space Become a Pantry?
• Can This Kitchen Be Renovated on a Budget of $2800?

Kitchen Makeover Requests
• Anna's Troublesome (Or Not) Pink Tile
• Jill's Dark and Quirky Mad Men Kitchen
• Erin and Brendan's Butter-Yellow Kitchen
• Ivy Wants More Color
• Samantha Needs a Creative Space

(Images: See linked posts for full image credits.)